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It is difficult to read his Life when all the references are to scholarly publication - with no indication of the actual Ancient Source that gives the incident! Anyone have enough knowledge to add the original sources inline (as is often done with other such articles)? Mastakos (talk) 19:01, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Saint Nicholas patronage of Beit jala

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Saint Nicholas should be remembered as the patron saint of Beit Jala in Palestine as well. ~2025-39316-82 (talk) 08:52, 9 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Change Paelstine to Syria Palaestina ~2026-38352-7 (talk) 16:18, 18 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done: You have not provided a reason for your proposed change or provided any reliable sources to support it. Day Creature (talk) 16:52, 18 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

- Between March 15, 270 and December 6, 343, the region was indeed known as the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. Following the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135, the Roman Empire had given that name to the former provinces of Judea and Galilee. Wikchard (talk) 21:50, 18 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Galilee was not a province in its own right, and was often included in the province of Judaea. And the Romans did not even bother to create a new name for Syria Palaestina, they just reused an older geographic term.: "David Jacobson suggests that the renaming may have been a practical choice, intended to reflect that the Roman province encompassed a much larger area than the traditional district of Judea, and to draw on a name with ancient regional associations.^[1] He also notes that the name was historically linked to the broader region of greater Israel.^[1] The name Syria-Palaestina was already in use in the Greco-Roman world at least five centuries earlier. Herodotus, for example, used the term in the 5th century BC when discussing the component parts of the fifth province of the Achaemenid Empire: Phoenicia, Cyprus, "and that part of Syria which is called Palestine".^[2]" Dimadick (talk) 22:36, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Not done Do you want to add Saints of the catholic church template to this page? Do you have any reliable source to prove your addition?. Please provide if any. Thank you. Regards, VerdictByLogic - Let's Discuss 08:23, 16 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

1 2 Jacobson 2001, pp. 44–45:"Hadrian officially renamed Judea Syria Palaestina after his Roman armies suppressed the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (the Second Jewish Revolt) in 135 C.E.; this is commonly viewed as a move intended to sever the connection of the Jews to their historical homeland. However, that Jewish writers such as Philo, in particular, and Josephus, who flourished while Judea was still formally in existence, used the name Palestine for the Land of Israel in their Greek works, suggests that this interpretation of history is mistaken. Hadrian's choice of Syria Palaestina may be more correctly seen as a rationalization of the name of the new province, in accordance with its area being far larger than geographical Judea. Indeed, Syria Palaestina had an ancient pedigree that was intimately linked with the area of greater Israel."
↑ The term Syria-Palaestina was already in use in the Greco-Roman world at least five centuries earlier. Herodotus, for example, used the term in the 5th century BC when discussing the component parts of the fifth province of the Achaemenid Empire: Phoenicia, Cyprus, "and that part of Syria which is called Palestine" (Ionic Greek: Συρίη ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Suríē hē Palaistínē). "The full Herodotus quote is "from the town of Posideion, which was founded by Amphilocus son of Amphiaraus, on the border between Cilicia and Syria, beginning from this as far as Egypt —omitting Arabian territory (which was free of tax), came 350 talents. In this province there is the whole of Phoenicia and that part of Syria which is called Palestine, and Cyprus. This is the fifth province" Anson F. Rainey (February 2001). "Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 321 (321). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research: 57–63. doi:10.2307/1357657. JSTOR 1357657. S2CID 163534665. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

[Jacob2001-1] 1 2 Jacobson 2001, pp. 44–45:"Hadrian officially renamed Judea Syria Palaestina after his Roman armies suppressed the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (the Second Jewish Revolt) in 135 C.E.; this is commonly viewed as a move intended to sever the connection of the Jews to their historical homeland. However, that Jewish writers such as Philo, in particular, and Josephus, who flourished while Judea was still formally in existence, used the name Palestine for the Land of Israel in their Greek works, suggests that this interpretation of history is mistaken. Hadrian's choice of Syria Palaestina may be more correctly seen as a rationalization of the name of the new province, in accordance with its area being far larger than geographical Judea. Indeed, Syria Palaestina had an ancient pedigree that was intimately linked with the area of greater Israel."

[2] The term Syria-Palaestina was already in use in the Greco-Roman world at least five centuries earlier. Herodotus, for example, used the term in the 5th century BC when discussing the component parts of the fifth province of the Achaemenid Empire: Phoenicia, Cyprus, "and that part of Syria which is called Palestine" (Ionic Greek: Συρίη ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Suríē hē Palaistínē). "The full Herodotus quote is "from the town of Posideion, which was founded by Amphilocus son of Amphiaraus, on the border between Cilicia and Syria, beginning from this as far as Egypt —omitting Arabian territory (which was free of tax), came 350 talents. In this province there is the whole of Phoenicia and that part of Syria which is called Palestine, and Cyprus. This is the fifth province" Anson F. Rainey (February 2001). "Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 321 (321). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research: 57–63. doi:10.2307/1357657. JSTOR 1357657. S2CID 163534665. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

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